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Sir Joseph Gold (1912-1997) was educated at
Harvard and London universities and knighted in 1980. He served as a member of the
International
Monetary Fund from 1946 to 1960, as General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department
from
1960 to 1979, and as Senior Consultant to the Fund. He collected first editions of
contemporary
authors, including in addition to works by Harold Pinter, significant holdings of
works by
Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. Harold Pinter, playwright,
director,
actor, poet, and political activist, was born in 1930. He has written twenty-nine
plays and
twenty-one screenplays and has been awarded numerous prizes for drama. Materials, the bulk of which were collected by Sir Joseph Gold,
relate to playwright, director, actor, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter.
Included are
playbills and theatrical advertisements; movie miscellany; literary prospectuses;
Gold's
correspondence, 1960-1978, regarding Pinter materials, including some with Alan Clodd;
and
newspaper clippings concerning Pinter and performances of his plays.

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as
stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in Harold Pinter Ephemera, Chiefly from the Collection of
Sir
Joseph Gold (PR6066.I53 Z98), Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired from Serendipity Books in June 2006

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Sir Joseph Gold (1912-1997) was educated at Harvard and London universities. He served
as a
member of the International Monetary Fund from 1946 to 1960, as General Counsel and
Director of
the Legal Department from 1960 to 1979, and as Senior Consultant to the Fund. Sir
Joseph was
knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1980. He was a distinguished collector of first editions
of
contemporary authors. His collections, in addition to works by Harold Pinter, included
significant holdings of works by Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, and Ted
Hughes.

Harold Pinter, playwright, director, actor, poet, and political activist, was born
in 1930. He
wrote twenty-nine plays and twenty-one screenplays and was awarded numerous prizes
for
drama.

Materials, the bulk of which were collected by Sir Joseph Gold, relate to playwright,
director, actor, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter. Included are playbills
and
theatrical advertisements; movie miscellany; literary prospectuses; Gold's correspondence,
1960-1978, regarding Pinter materials, including some with Alan Clodd; and newspaper
clippings
concerning Pinter and performances of his plays.

Pinter to P. B. Comerford, July 18, 1960; Peter Hall to Ian Hamilyton, June 10, 1966;
eleven letters from Alan Clodd to Joseph Gold, written between June 1967 and November
1960;
Pamela Robinson to Joseph Gold, March 31, 1978.

"Pinter's statement at Rome regarding the Italian production of
"Old Times" (photocopy of typescript, 7 p., dated 10th May 1973 at end); a different
version of the same statement (typescript, 5 p., dated May 1973 at end); photomechanical
reproduction of typescript of "Kullus" (1949) and eleven
poems dated 1950-1983 (14 p.)